I find it interesting that course/book authors are blaming LLMs and likely not the more obvious example of how the US has been in a faltering k-shaped economy for years where the industry you want sell material to has dealt with constant layoffs + anti-worker tactics over the same time period. If people aren't secure in their jobs, they aren't going to waste money buying something they don't need.

Also people just age out of buying this stuff, what use do I have for programming books after working 15 years in the industry? The docs have always been sufficient to learn on your own IME. That plus realizing there are other fun things to do with your one single life than constantly "upskilling."

Use to be a massive subscriber to frontend masters, but the site has honestly sucked for years where they rotate the same dev influencers teaching the same courses year after year. Hard to justify subscribing to something that hasn't really innovated or done interesting projects in half a decade.